Into the mystery

The title “Into the Mystery” is inspired by a NEEDTOBREATHE song of the same name that celebrates the joy that can come from being willing to explore the tension of seen and unseen. Growth is found in the struggle to make sense of ideas and experiences that seem to be in complete opposition. This series of paintings is an invitation to explore those contradictions gently. Reflections in the shallows of water are a vision of what is above and what is below, compressing both of those spaces into the third space of the reflective surface. Seeing these liminal spaces in nature exist as a snapshot of the high and the low together provides the space to mirror that process internally, with the hope that resonance can be found even where concrete conclusions cannot. All images are inspired by reflections found at the Riparian Reserve in Gilbert, Arizona.